desk

Signification (Anglais)

1. A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.
2. A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (especially in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession.
3. A department tasked with a particular topic or focus in certain types of businesses, such as newspapers and financial trading firms.
4. Short for mixing desk.
5. A station for a string player in an orchestra, consisting of a chair and a music stand, or a row of such stations.

bureau

bureau des dépêches

escritoire

writing table

writing-desk

school desk

reading-stand

reading-desk

desk-bound

work table

writing-table

office desk

table use

law office

high

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/dɛsk/

From Middle English deske, desque, from Medieval Latin desca, modified from Old Italian desco, from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, disc, discus, dish, disk, and diskos. See also German Tisch, "table".

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